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{punctuation} is for questions involving the typesetting of punctuation marks. If your question relates to punctuation in particular document parts such as e.g. bibliography formatting or section formatting you should also add the appropriate tag for that topic.

I have little problem :). I have a big file with 1422 footnotes. The problem is that I need to put every footnotes before punctuation (.,;).
How to automatically put the footnotes before punctuation?
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Exists a method or environment to write in French, exactly like a quote in « guillemets », a text in — en dashes — with automatic non-breaking spaces inside ? So, I used this trivial method, but it ...

When an @online entry contains a note, but no title, I get a period after the year.
Even with \renewcommand{\labelnamepunct}{\addspace}
How to tell biblatex to not print the period, when no title is ...

Suppose that a document makes a heavy use of one of the abbreviations PhD, Ph.D., DPhil and D.Phil., and for the sake of consistency the author decides to define a \PhD macro and use it whenever they ...

I was reading Jan Tschichold's The Form of the Book and he suggest to use
‹ [\guilsinglleft] and › [\guilsinglright]
instead of « » for the outer quotation mark. So, I wonder how to do it, provided ...

In math mode when I type a sentence, my habit was to put commas/full stops/semicolons, etc. outside the dollar sign. For example, I would write Let the variable be denoted by $x$., instead of Let the ...

Let me explain. When I put some listings using listings package, then simple signs are replaced with similar, but more fancy signs, for example: ' into ` and so on, therefore there is no way to copy ...

When a word in single quotes falls at the end of the quotation, LaTeX decides to render it as "' instead of '". For example:
``He said it was `off the hook'''
would render: "He said it was 'off the ...

I was under the impression that csquotes provides support for American-style punctuation, whereby a punctuation mark adjacent to a closing quotation mark is moved inside, not outside, the quotation ...

When typing Chinese using xeCJK, periods and/or closing square brackets are too closely spaced together. How can I get more natural-looking spacings (e.g., tweaking xeCJK settings to match the Word ...

Is there a way to remove the trailing period in the boxhandler package? It seems to occur with both the bxfigure and bxtable commands, but I have instances where I need no trailing periods.
Minimum ...

I am helping a friend use LaTeX to generate a book of short stories. The stories are received from the authors in MS Word -- unfortunately that is only text editor most of the world knows. There is no ...

Bit of a newbie question. I have read somewhere (can't seem to find it now) that if you wish to write Mr. John Doe or Dr. Jane Doe that LaTeX with treat the . as a full stop and add an extra space.
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Is there a way to typeset a right double quote directly above a period (if the quotation ends with a period)? Not to the left (for example, ."), not to the right (for example, ".), but directly above. ...

I am trying to solve a simple problem but have been unable to find a answer on this forum. My question is -- how can I put a colon after the appendix name? I feel that it should be pretty simple but ...

I am using csquotes package in my document which has a title with quoted phrase. The title should be centralized, so it is nested into center environment. LaTeX (XeLaTeX to be more precise) handles ...

I'm using memoir class to write a novel. As it is widely known, writer comments inside novel characters' dialogues are usually enclosed between long dashes which in turn are written as a triple dash ...

I was surprised when today I got the error message Package csquotes Error: Unbalanced groups or invalid nesting. After a while I found the culprit in my bibliography-file. It is a bib-item whose title ...

The Chicago Manual of Style says punctuation and quotation marks should match the surrounding rather than the enclosed font (i.e. roman or italic), unless they form part of a title, in which case they ...